Lauren Quin @ Pace Gallery

Pace Gallery represents Lauren Quin

Portrait of Lauren Quin

Photograph by Lee Thompson

Lauren Quin 

Lowing, 2024 

© Lauren Quin, courtesy Pace Gallery

Photo by Marten Elder

Pace announces its representation of the Los Angeles-based artist LAUREN QUIN, who is known for her expansive, vibrant abstractions in which she orchestrates layers of colors, patterns, and symbols to describe, deconstruct, and interrogate the entanglement of real and pictorial space. Quin’s repertoire of dynamic movements and noncompositional forms create pulsating networks of marks and countermarks, which churn and fluctuate between the concrete and the ephemeral. 

Often working at large scale, Lauren Quin constructs her paintings methodically from an arsenal of recurring gestures and techniques. Expressionistic brushstrokes are truncated by channels carved across a painting’s surface, creating sculpted fissures in images that Lauren Quin further disrupts through passages of monoprinted ink, which she weaves between layers of paint. Turbulent and engrossing, her works are as much excavated as they are made. Past and present mingle on the surfaces of her canvases, interrupting and distorting one another.

Drawing is an essential part of Quin’s process. Rather than a compositional map, drawing serves as a compass, a tool for orienteering. In her work, painting is revealed as a wilderness—the act of painting involves the risk of getting lost, of giving up the notion of fixity in space and language. Amidst this painterly derive, Lauren Quin deploys and re-deploys symbols from her ever-expanding archive of drawings, anchoring her process and linking one painting to the next.

The poetic substrate of Quin’s abstraction is temporality. In each work, Lauren Quin interrogates the unfolding of painterly time while also producing an altogether different kind of time. “You can span time inside a painting because when you look at it, you don’t read it left to right; you start to enter, circle, and travel,” Lauren Quin has said. “It takes a long time for a painting to unfold.”

Quin’s representation by Pace follows her New York solo debut in 2024 at 125 Newbury, a project space helmed by Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher. Entitled Lauren Quin: Logopanic, the exhibition was presented in two parts, bringing together a new body of work. In the 125 Newbury Free Press, Arne Glimcher wrote that Quin’s paintings “knocked me out by their power, intensity, and ravishing beauty … They were overwhelming, like storms harnessed at the moment of exquisite danger.”

Lauren Quin’s first solo exhibition with Pace will open in Los Angeles in February 2026. Her work will be featured prominently in the gallery’s booth at the upcoming edition of Frieze Seoul in September. 

Artist Lauren Quin

 

Born in Los Angeles in 1992, Lauren Quin received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to her 2024 exhibition at 125 Newbury in New York, the artist has presented solo shows at the Pond Society in Shanghai and Blum & Poe in Los Angeles in recent years. In 2023, she mounted her first US museum exhibition, 'My Hellmouth', at the Nerman Museum of Art in Overland Park, Kansas.

Lauren Quin’s paintings are included in major museums collections internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Pérez Art Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Long Museum and Yuz Museum, Shanghai. 

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Kristina Riska @ Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki - "Uncertainties" Exhibition

Kristina Riska: Uncertainties

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

November 29, 2024 – January 12, 2025

Kristina Riska’s artistic process harnesses both the delicate malleability and the willful nature of clay. The artist describes herself as battling her material, attempting to achieve the impossible, which is why she was unsure until the last minute before the show’s opening how many of her sculptures would survive intact. When working with clay, one must humble oneself before the material – clay insists upon writing its own narrative. Its size and shape are transformed during firing in the kiln, as are the textures and colors imparted by glazes, thus conferring a key role to chance in the birthing process of ceramic art.

As an entirely new feature in Riska’s art, many of her recent sculptures are propped on struts, some resembling Japanese wooden geta sandals, others rounder like wheels or pompoms. By resting her sculptures on inbuilt pedestals, Kristina Riska has freed up wholly new avenues of expression in her construction of form. Each sculpture tells its own mini-story, and the titles hint at the underlying meanings in subtle, oblique ways. Instead of having a clear uniting theme, the sculptures in this exhibition were created intuitively, in states of mind ranging from joy to sorrow. They are richly diverse in style, yet each one has a counterpart or companion piece with which it engages in dialogue, creating cohesion within the exhibition.

Working with clay is just as inspiring to Kristina Riska today as it was forty years ago. She describes it as a huge privilege and gift. At the heart of her process is her desire to distill her craft to its purest essence – to strip everything down to the essentials and achieve total integrity of expression. While immersed in a project, she avoids looking at the work of other artists and strives to concentrate purely on her own creative process.

Kristina Riska (b. 1960) is one of Finland’s most internationally renowned ceramic artists. Her studio is based on the premises of the Arabia Art Department Society in Helsinki. She has won international awards and has exhibited her work everywhere, from the United States to Denmark and Japan. Her sculptures are held in numerous international private collections, as well as the collections of the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Finnish and Swedish governments.

GALERIE FORSBLOM

Yrjönkatu 22, 00120 Helsinki

www.galerieforsblom.com

Emma Helle @ Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki - "Walking Lake, Burning Heart" Exhibition

Emma Helle 

Walking Lake, Burning Heart

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki 

November 24, 2023 – January 7, 2024

Two kinds of metamorphosis take place in EMMA HELLE’s latest sculptures: the human figures stand motionless, perhaps on the verge of turning into trees, while the landscape-like clouds and bushes have sprouted limbs as if they were attempting to carry the space. The static figures stand watch like gentle sentinels, benevolently protecting and caring for everything around them. The physical contours of the dynamic figures meanwhile melt and fluidly coalesce with their surroundings. The clouds may drift and the landscape may change, but the movements of the mind follow the wanderer. The rippling lake is an emotional landscape with an irresistible pull.

Lush, thriving vegetation entwines itself around human figures in Emma Helle’s sculptures. The plants cling to the space and the figures, supporting them and themselves being supported. Humankind and nature coexist in perfect synergy, nurturing each other. The sculptures hark back to prehistoric times before humans upset the balance of nature. Emma Helle’s sculptures pose the question: Could a new balance be regained in the post-Anthropocene?

The luxuriant figures in the sculptures serve as reminders of the ongoing flow of life. Referencing art history, their voluptuous corporeality slides from masculine to feminine, while their free flow and abandonment of defined contours anchor them in the contemporary moment. Their entangled symbiosis foregrounds the diversity of human relationships. Is friendship ultimately so very different from a love relationship?

EMMA HELLE (b. 1979) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and her work is found in private collections as well as the collections of HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the State Art Deposit Collection, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Saastamoinen Foundation, Wihuri Foundation and Pro Artibus. She has held numerous solo exhibitions at venues including Turku Art Museum, and she has participated in group exhibitions at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Stockholm’s National Museum, the Mänttä Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

GALERIE FORSBLOM

Yrjönkatu 22 - 00120 Helsinki

www.galerieforsblom.com

Joaquín Sorolla @ Glyptotek, Copenhagen – "Light in Motion" Exhibition

Joaquín Sorolla – Light in Motion

Glyptotek, Copenhagen

8 November 2023 – 3 March 2024

Joaquín Sorolla 

Clotilde bajo el toldo, Biarritz (Clotilde beneath the awning, Biarritz), 1906 

© Madrid, Museo Sorolla [Inv. 00774]

Joaquín Sorolla 

La alberca, Alcázar de Sevilla (The reservoir, Alcázar, Seville), 1910

© Madrid, Museo Sorolla  [Inv. 00854]

Joaquín Sorolla 

Clotilde en el jardín (Clotilde in the garden), 1919-1920 

© Madrid, Museo Sorolla  [Inv. 01270]

Joaquín Sorolla – Light in Motion is the first-ever solo exhibition in the Nordic region devoted to the work of the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla. Featuring one of Spain’s most important painters, it marks both the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death and the state visit of the Spanish royal family to Denmark.

In November, for the first time in 42 years, the Spanish royal family pays a state visit to Denmark. In the light of this visit, and the fact that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the painter Joaquín Sorolla, in collaboration with Museo Sorolla, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation is presenting an exhibition devoted to the artist.  

Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) was one of Spain’s greatest artists. Although up there with the likes of painters such as Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso, internationally speaking his oeuvre is probably not as famous as that of those other Spanish masters.

Joaquín Sorolla was born in Valencia in 1863. He started studying art in 1876 at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Valencia. He then travelled to Madrid, Paris and several Italian cities before finally settling in Madrid in 1899. He regularly took part in international exhibitions in major cities such as Paris, Munich, Vienna, London and Chicago, receiving several awards and meeting international colleagues. In 1909, Joaquín Sorolla had a major exhibition in New York, and in 1911 he received a large-scale commission from Archer Milton Huntington, who requested a decorative mural consisting of 14 monumental paintings featuring motifs from the regions of Spain. Joaquín Sorolla died in Cercedilla, Madrid in 1923.

Joaquín Sorolla

Sierra Nevada en invierno (Sierra Nevada in Winter), 1910 

© Madrid, Museo Sorolla [Inv. 00867]

Joaquín Sorolla

Rompeolas, San Sebastián (Breakwater, San Sebastián), 1917-1918 

© Madrid, Museo Sorolla [Inv. 01246]

This is the first-ever solo exhibition in Denmark of the work of Joaquín Sorolla. The Museo Sorolla has loaned 17 of the artist’s distinctive works to the Glyptotek. Actually, the work of Joaquín Sorolla was exhibited at the Glyptotek on one previous occasion: a single work featured in Den Internationale Kunstudstilling (The International Art Exhibition) (1897), when the museum was inaugurated. Carl Jacobsen’s objective was to introduce major international art to the Nordic region and to show the outside world that Denmark was a potentially new artistic centre in Europe.

Joaquín Sorolla is famous as ‘the master of light’. His paintings are full of light in motion, as observed by the artist in various landscapes and natural phenomena, and from season to season. He is famous for his depictions of the sea and beach scenes, landscapes and portraits, all of which motifs are featured in this exhibition. Given his interest in light, Sorolla is often associated with Impressionism. However, on account of his attempt to render his environment as accurately as possibly, he can also be called a Naturalist.

In the context of Denmark, Joaquín Sorolla’s work has much in common with the work of the Skagen Painters: in particularly, that of Peder Severin Krøyer. Joaquín Sorolla and Krøyer were contemporaries, and Sorolla is often referred to colloquially as ‘the Spanish Krøyer’. This is not only due to their common interest in plein air painting, but also because they both created atmospheric, lucent paintings, capturing nature, people’s lives and scenes of everyday life: working fishermen, young women walking on the beach, shaded gardens and the constant changes of the sea.

The work of the two artists featured in many of the same exhibitions – for example, in the 1895 Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris – and it is very likely that they knew and saw each other’s works.

Joaquín Sorolla – Light in Motion features key works from the collection of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid. The exhibition was the initiative of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation in collaboration with the Museo Sorolla. The exhibition is curated by Enrique Juncosa.

Joaquín Sorolla’s paintings are presented in dialogue with five works by five Spanish contemporary artists from different generations. All the works relate to Joaquín Sorolla’s oeuvre. The five Spanish contemporary artists are: Soledad Sevilla, Miquel Barceló, Juan Uslé, Miki Leal and Belén Rodríguez.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Dantes Plads 7, Copenhagen 1556

www.glyptoteket.com

Landscape Painter Tomas Sanchez joins Marlborough Gallery

LANDSCAPE PAINTER TOMAS SANCHEZ 

JOINS MARLBOROUGH GALLERY

Marlborough Gallery announces that the esteemed landscape painter, TOMAS SANCHEZ, has joined its stable of artists.

Tomas Sanchez was born in 1948 in Cuba. He graduated in 1971 from the National School of Art in Havana. In 1980, he won first place in the 19th International Juan Miro Prize of drawing in Barcelona and in 1981 had his first one-man show of drawings at the Miro Foundation in the same city. In 1984, he won the Amelia Palaez National award for painting in the first Biennial of Havana and the following year he was honored by his first retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. In 1988, Tomas Sanchez, received Cuba's National Culture Merit Award given by the State Council. He has had several successful exhibitions in South America, Mexico and Florida where the artist now lives and works. His most recent exhibition (1996) was a one-man show at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

There are currently two books published on Tomas Sanchez's work: Tomas Sanchez and His Pictorial Universe (Palette Publications, 1996) and Tomas Sanchez, Paisaje Interior (Petroleos Mexicanos, 1994). Writing in the text to the former work, Roberto J. Cayuso says that Tomas Sanchez can be associated with Spanish realist painters who understand their art not from a photographic vision, but born from meditation and...prompted by life and authentic visual perceptions. Continuing, he states:

When we admire one of his landscapes, whether it deals with junkyards or interpretations of nature, the first thing that impresses us is the surprising magnificence of the theme and then, the treatment of it. Here, we can almost count the leaves of the trees and the waves of the waters. His clouds seem to be pieces of cotton torn and tossed by the wind that create an exquisite symphony of lights and colors without neglecting the smallest detail, however small it may be. He delivers us with a work of lyricism and unsuspected yearnings.

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British sculptor Anthony Caro - Marlborough Gallery - The artist is represented by the gallery in the USA

BRITISH SCULPTOR SIR ANTHONY CARO 

REPRESENTED BY MARLBOROUGH GALLERY 

IN THE USA

Marlborough Gallery, New York, announces that renowned British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro has joined the gallery and will be represented by Marlborough throughout the United States.

Sir Anthony Caro was born in Surrey, England in 1924. He attended the Royal Academy in London and, during that time, served as assistant to sculptor Henry Moore. Throughout his career Sir Anthony has been a dedicated educator, holding teaching positions at St. Martin's School of Art in London and Bennington College in Vermont. In 1982, he founded the Triangle Artists' Workshop, an annual gathering of sculptors and painters in Pine Plains, New York. In 1987, he was knighted for his contribution to art. Sir Anthony Caro lives and works in London.

One of the most accomplished and respected sculptors working today, Sir Anthony's work is among the most innovative of the 20th century. He has been a driving force in contemporary sculpture, and as a teacher has inspired an entire generation of younger British sculptors including Barry Flannagan, Richard Long, William Tucker, Bruce McLean and Gilbert & George. His sculptural language has evolved over the years to include works in various materials ranging from steel in different forms such as I-beams and ship's buoys, to ceramic, bronze, silver, lead and wood. Sir Anthony is continuously reinventing his art by challenging his own perceptions of scale and exploring new means with which to express his artistic vision.

Sir Anthony Caro first came to the forefront of the British contemporary art scene in the early 1960s, when he began to produce abstract, welded steel sculpture, painted in bright colors. In 1966, Sir Anthony turned his attention toward small-scale steel forms. His best-known work of this period is a series called Table Pieces. Unlike his large-scale steel sculptures which were set directly on the ground, these smaller-scale sculptures rested on table tops, making the table itself an integral part of the work. In the 1970s, he began to examine sculpture on a monumental scale and abandoned his use of painted steel for materials such as raw, unfinished steel, iron, bronze and wood. In May 1970, while a critic for The New York Times, Hilton Kramer wrote of Sir Anthony: "He is unquestionably the most important sculptor to come out of England since Henry Moore...One has the impression of an artist who, having totally mastered a new and difficult area of sculptural syntax, is now permitting himself a freer margin of lyric improvisation".

Since 1980, Sir Anthony has been predominantly interested in architecturally related sculpture. He was profoundly moved by a trip he made to Greece in 1985, in which he marveled at the relationship between the sculpture and architecture at such sites as the Parthenon, Delphi, Mycenae and Olympia. In 1987, he executed a series of works inspired by Greek pedimental sculpture, including After Olympia, a monumental work inspired by the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus. In the 1980s, Sir Anthony's interest shifted toward what he calls "sculpitecture", or works that examine the relationship and create a dialogue between architecture and sculpture. In more recent years, he has collaborated with numerous architects such as: Frank Gehry, with whom he realized the 1978 Architectural Village, a network of freely constructed wooden forms and linking walkways; and Sir Norman Foster, with whom he helped produce a winning entry for the 1996 Millennium Bridge Design competition for the first footbridge to be built over the river Thames in more than a century.

In a 1995 interview with Robert Hopper, Sir Anthony stated: "One thing that I like about the nineties is that possibilities are broader for me than they have been. I can tackle things in a fresh way. And the way forward is not clear."

Among Sir Anthony Caro's innumerable one-man exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide are a 1992 exhibition organized by The British Council and installed amid the ruins of the Trajan Markets in the ancient Roman Forum, and the largest retrospective of his work to date organized in 1995 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. His sculpture is represented in more than one hundred public collections worldwide including: Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tate Gallery, London; and the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel.

Large-scale sculpture by Sir Anthony Caro will be included in the inaugural exhibition opening September 18 at Marlborough's new gallery in Chelsea at 211 West 19th Street, New York City. His work will also be featured in a solo exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea in the spring of 1998.

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